Our Vision — Sermon Searcher

The problem

Years of teaching, buried in video

Churches have poured thousands of hours of teaching onto YouTube. But video is where words go to hide:

YouTube search only sees titles and descriptions. The actual words spoken in a sermon — the stories, the scriptures, the answers people remember — are invisible to search.
Nobody scrubs. If someone remembers "that part about forgiveness from a couple of years ago," their only option is dragging a slider through hours of video. They give up.
The archive depreciates. Each new sermon buries the last one. Five years of faithful teaching becomes a back-catalogue almost no one can use.

The vision

Every sermon, searchable by every word

A search engine built for sermons. Every video is transcribed and indexed word by word, with timestamps — the content of the preaching becomes searchable, not just the packaging.
Search the way you think. Type a topic, a scripture, or a half-remembered phrase in plain English. AI matches meaning, not just keywords.
Jump to the exact moment. Every result links into the YouTube video within seconds of where it was said. No scrubbing — you're already there.
A living library. New sermons are indexed automatically as they're published. The archive gets more valuable every week instead of deeper every week.

For listeners

Search the way you'd ask a friend

"Where did he talk about doubt and trusting God when prayers feel unanswered?"

"What was said about anxiety and the peace of God in Philippians 4?"

"The sermon where Jesus wept at Lazarus's tomb"

Revisit, share, and study. Find the moment again, send the exact clip link to a friend, build a small-group study around what was actually taught.
Searching and browsing are open to everyone — no account required.

For channel owners

Why add your channel?

A search engine for your channel that doesn't exist anywhere else. Not YouTube, not Google — no one else lets people search every spoken word of your teaching and land on the exact moment.
Reach people you're not reaching today. Your teaching surfaces whenever someone searches a topic or scripture you've preached on — including seekers who have never heard of your church.
All traffic flows to YOUR channel. Every result opens on your YouTube channel — views, watch time, and subscribers accrue to you. We host nothing and take nothing.
Your congregation gets a superpower. Members re-find moments mid-week, pastors reference past series, small groups pull up exactly what was taught.
Zero effort. Opt in once. We index your back-catalogue and add each new sermon automatically as you publish.

For channel owners

You stay in control

Opt-in only. Channels are added with the owner's permission — you verify ownership of your YouTube channel by signing in with Google. No one else can claim your channel.
Your content stays yours. Videos never leave YouTube. We index the public captions and link back; ownership, monetization, and analytics are untouched.
You manage your presence. Verified owners assign speakers, correct titles and metadata, and curate how their catalogue appears.
Leave anytime. Ask and your channel is removed — completely.

Roadmap

Where we are, where we're going

Today

Launch church: Praxis Church Kelowna — 5 years, 250+ videos fully indexed
Keyword, semantic, and hybrid search live
Search and browsing open to everyone — no account needed
One-click Google sign-in for channel management
New sermons indexed weekly

Channel-owner onboarding: add your whole church channel by URL
Owners verify their channel with Google and manage their own catalogue
Okanagan churches by invitation, then across Canada in 2026
Any denomination, any size

Join us

Be part of the library

Channel owners: get your channel indexed — reach more people with the teaching you've already created. It's free, it's opt-in, and you stay in control.

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